I agree that candyapple red would be cool on the frame - one of my favourite colours (notice the quaint Canadian spelling).
I'm still trying to convince myself that 2K clearcoat over polished bare metal will work, but... I know it won't (and have you checked the price of chrome plating lately?).
Glad you didn't have any cracks in your frame - one of mine had the two lower frame tubes broken through completely at the footpegs and one of my buds had his top frame rails severely cracked, almost to the point of failure. I have 2 more frames to check but winter projects.
Are you boxing the upper frame rails?
Believe it or not, I spent this afternoon digging welding slag out of some really bad (factory) welds on the baby tracker - wow, factory paint over them and everything.
Regarding wire wheeling, I'm using one of those composite plastic / rubber / abrasive wheels and while the paint removal rate is slow, the flying debris is pretty low key.
Keep having fun.
Pat